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Billed to fill that need is incoming freshman Levi Richards of Newton High School in Newton, Ill. Murphy said that the 6’1 wideout “will be the fastest kid on the team the day he steps off the plane...
...rights today; at worst, it is simply wrong—the first step toward completely denying a woman’s right to choose tomorrow.” The coup de grâce was saved, however, for the final paragraph: the Court’s “ill-considered decision will have the worst possible repercussions for American women.” Throughout The Crimson’s 400-odd-word jeremiad, not even one clause deigned to mount a practical defense of the procedure the editorial ostensibly intended to defend...
Bear in mind, too, that in many circumstances, the mentally ill may not look “crazy.” Though those with unrelenting symptomatic behaviors may stand out, many sufferers’ illnesses are subtle and insidious. Many illnesses manifest behind the scenes—behind closed doors, in bursts or breaks, in neutral behaviors, or only in the mind. Harvard students are famous for our ability to cover, to act, to seem fine when we are not. We might question declarations of, “He seems fine!” with: Are you looking...
...When at last she did, she gave him a piece of her mind, telling Smith he had betrayed her people and upbraiding him for staying gone for so many years and never sending a word. Weeks later, drifting down the Thames aboard a ship bound for Jamestown, Pocahontas fell ill. She died in Gravesend in March 1617. Smith lived another 14 years, unwed to his dying day. Both were buried in England, separately, and a world away from the one true love they indisputably shared, a place the English called America...
...colonists were ill-prepared for life in Virginia and, at least initially, had no crops to harvest. So Kelso was not surprised to dig up the goods they offered the Indians in exchange for food. Among them: Venetian glass beads (blue ones were preferred), sheet copper (a commodity prized by the Powhatan, who wore pendants and other ornaments fashioned from the reddish metal), European coins (useless in Virginia) and metal tools (the Indians had ones made only from stone, wood, bone and shell). By the 1660s, when the English had established a number of settlements in the area, the Indians...